Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 161

AUDEMARS PIGUET, JUMP HOUR MINUTE REPEATER NO. 9, PLATINUM Audemars Piguet, "Minute Repeater, Jump Hour", No. 9, case No. D22180, Ref. PT25723. Made in a limited number of pieces in 1994. Very fine and very rare, rectangular, minute-repeating, jump hour, platinum wristwatch with a Platinum Audemars Piguet buckle. Accompanied by a box.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White with painted black Breguet numerals, rectangular subsidiary seconds dial at 6, aperture for the jump hour at 12, outer minute track. Black gold cathedral hand. M. Cal. 2865, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 29 mm. Thickness 8 mm.